User talk:Slashme/Archive 3

Just wanted to say thanks

for cleaning up the dubious info in melamine. I should have been more bold, but I'm actually quite a noob to wiki, and am a bit conflict averse as well, and didn't want to get into edit wars with dubious theorists. Abby Kelleyite 12:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Glad to help (full response on User_talk:AbbyKelleyite) --Slashme 15:15, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Convection

Yesterday i added the comparism to diffusion in the article about convection. You edited my add. You 're right, "internal force" is misleading and "brownian motion" ist the correct discription of the physical process. But you also edited the term "caused by an external force such as gravity or heating" by "convection is a relatively large-scale effect, involving bulk fluid motion." I think yor 're right with the discription "how convection looks like" but you deleted what is the REASON for convection, and I think the reason is a (macroscopic) external force due to gravity, pressure difference, temperature difference and so on. For example in fuel cells technology forcing a liquid to move through a porous media is denoted by convection. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.187.5.225 (talk) 08:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC).

Discussion continued at Talk:Convection --Slashme 10:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

MetsBot flagging of Image:FlattenedRoundPills.jpg

I see your bot flagged Image:FlattenedRoundPills.jpg as possibly not meeting the requirements for deletion, but the source info on Commons looks OK to me. What gives? (Please respond by email or on my talk page, as I might miss responses here.) --Slashme 07:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC) MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has proper source information on Commons.

It's actually good. Note that the message reads "MetsBot was unable to determine if this image has proper source information on Commons." This does not mean that it's incorrect, simply that the bot couldn't tell. —METS501 (talk) 20:24, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome, and yes, I indeed love the user box. I use Windows because it's convenient and a whole lot easier, at least for the time being. Cool user page, it reminded me that I need to learn how to play 'Go'. Unchain 23:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the link! I've made an account under "Unchain". Let me know when you want to show me how it's done. I used to be big into chess, but fell out of it. I like the idea of Go, it looks quite simple yet rich in strategy, unlike chess, which is complex in play and complex in strategy. I just couldn't keep up I suppose. Unchain 22:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey, tx for the hint :)

I am new to wikipedia and did not know I must ask for permission before posting/changing a article. I saw the article was 'going back' to the old version but did not understand why until I discovert 'history' and your comment. I think I figured out how it all works. Is not a bot changing the text but people. Now, what must I do if I want my text to show up there without changes? I am talking about 'South African Farm Attacks' page. Please advise. Also let me know if you are prepared to chat with me on MSN or Yahoo about all this. I somewhat get the feeling, that particular post is very biased and would like to make it more unbiased if is right with you. (Leave out the government part). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.30.118.76 (talk) 06:22, 31 May 2007

You don't have to ask for permission to edit, but if you are making large changes to an article, it really helps to discuss it on the talk page of the article in question, so that people don't just remove your text because they don't understand what you're doing. The South African farm attacks page is obviously a pretty emotional place, and we have had some rather radical right-wing contributions over the years, so it really helps to think very carefully before you post, and word your talk page discussions carefully as well. We seem to have achieved some balance between the extreme positions of "It's a government-sponsored genocide" and "They were racists and deserved what they got". I'm not sure which edits were yours, because you weren't logged in when you posted the comment above, but go ahead, discuss your edits on the talk page, and see what you can manage. --Slashme 06:47, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Tania Roxborogh

I feel embarrassed. It was suggested to me by my brother in law to load up a link because I am constantly being sent emails from kids around NZ, Aussie, SA and Britain and, though I always reply with a link to the NZ Book Council site, I thought this might help. IN Nz, I'm referred to a lot in both writing and educational circles but, unfortunately, am not a digital native. What follows are some links about me which might 'establish' my critical rep. You decide. Hate this promoting self thing but, as an educator, know the importance to kids of the power of the web: http://www.nzbookcouncil.org.nz/writers/roxboroughtania.html http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3413/features/4826/fat_chance.html http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Kids/ChildrensAuthors/TaniaRoxborogh.asp http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=585927 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=2349337 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=2046011

There are many more but I shall stop. Back to the novel I'm working on. cheers Tania Roxborogh

Tania Roxborogh 10:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Did you read this article? I bet your embarrassment could be much worse! What I'll do is to see if I can get a reasonable article up, and then ask for a review from other editors on the notability issue. Then we can either keep the article and remove those ugly tabs on the top, or delete it for the time being. Hope that seems reasonable to you. --Slashme 12:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I've done a bit on the page. I've asked her to check some things, but if you'd like to take a look at it? ~Sushi 06:14, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

(note: Reponse at User_talk:Tania Roxborogh)

lol I'm not so much a fan as she's my English teacher and Form teacher ^~ ~Sushi 04:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

XD yea, she's a great teacher ^^ I don't think my German is good enough to understand the entire book, but I can try. I understand your reasoning too =D ~Sushi 23:45, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Wow. I wouldn't have the patience to read Mein Kampf. I love the plotline for the Neverending Story so that'll keep me going too =D ~Sushi 07:35, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Micronutrient/Food Fortification

Great! Your "copious" changes have already made the page a lot richer!! I guess "fortification" usually involves mainly micronutrients... mukerjee (talk) 21:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Cheshire Cat in popular culture

Cheshire Cat in popular culture, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Cheshire Cat in popular culture satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cheshire Cat in popular culture and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Cheshire Cat in popular culture during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Eyrian 16:31, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania 2008 in Cape Town

Hi. Would you be interested in helping to ensure Wikimania 2008 is held in Cape Town? If so, please go to the Cape Town bid page, and sign up on the discussion page. Feel free to dive right in with adding suggestions, or fleshing out the bid! I'd greatly appreciate any help, no matter how small. Greenman 00:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Panos AGR

(Moved from Image talk:Slashme.jpg)

Can you help me please inserting the reference since is very important and relative to the use of lineic acid. I had direct experience with doctors using this type of therapy also for cancer treatment with great results

Thanks

Panos - Greece

--Unsigned comment by User:Panos AGR 09:12 7 September 2007

Reply on user page and article talk page.--Slashme 09:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Raman scattering

Yes, I meant photons. Thanks for fixing that. Cardamon 09:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

RE:Graph Lab

As I said on the Graphic Lab page, thanks for the job on the laser intensity graph, and the clear explanation!

That's okay! :-) > Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 16:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Vergeef my verskriklike Afrikaans, maar dit was wonderlik om Afrikaans te sien.

Ek het vir die verlede vyf jare nie Afrikaans gesien of praat nie, en toe sien ek wat jy op my bladsy geskryf het, en ek het did net gelees, maar nie gereëliseer nie dat dit in Afrikaans was - my brein het net vir my gesê dat dit Engelse was! Dit was net op die twede keer dat ek dit gelees het dat ek gesien het dat dit nie Engelse was nie - eienaardig! Maar, soos jy kan sien, my Afrikaans is nie nou te goed nie!

Dankie vir al die hulp met Wikipedia! Gresmi 15:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Microwave Sintering

Why was the whole new section on microwave sintering cut? I provided citations, which is more than other posters provided.

Microwave sintering is a proven technnology that is widely used in Asia; is just now being adopted in the U.S.; is radically different than conventional sintering, as it yields 80% energy savings and 90% processing time reduction.

Why omit it???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yellowpad (talk • contribs) 15:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Chlorophyll

David, can you sned me the structure of chlorophyll you have drawn so that i can put your version into ChemSpider please? Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.162.249.146 (talk) 01:50, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I did a few types of chlorophyll; they can be downloaded at:

• Image:chlorophyll_a.svg
• Image:chlorophyll_b.svg
• Image:chlorophyll_d.svg
• Image:chlorophyll_c1.svg
• Image:chlorophyll_c2.svg

Note, these are svg images. You can either download the png previews that you will see on their respective pages, or you can convert them with inkscape. --Slashme 06:29, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Graphics Lab Announcement

Attention All Wikigraphists!

As you may or may have not noticed, the Graphics Lab pages have gone under a massive cleanup by User:DTR, User:Rugby471 and various others (sorry if I missed you out). Some of the things that have happened are.

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• All pages in the Graphics Lab have had, where sensible, templates, substituting elements. For example, the main Lab page was a large chunk of around 100 lines of pure code. It was not very easy to edit the main page, so the various sections of it (eg links, welcome) have been separated. Therefore the main page is now only around 20 lines of user friendly text. If you wish to edit the main page, you must look on the main page for the correct template to edit. (Fore example if I wanted to edit the links section, I would go to Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/links and edit the text there). This has been done to all of the pages, in an attempt to make them more user-friendly.

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• As you were notified of early, the Wikigraphist Abilities page has been set up and has been beginning to get populated. If you haven't already setup your own entry, you are advised to go and do so now.

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• Due to a comment from User:DTR. A template for Graphics Lab announcements has been created. It is at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement. If you ever need to issue a message to Wikigraphists, please use this template in the form

{{Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement|message ~~~~}}

Where message is the announcement you wish to issue.

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• On the Images to Improve Page, an issue was noticed where that when requests were completed, people were adding {{Did}} but forgetting to add <!--werdnabot-archive--&gt so that the request would be archived. Therefore a template has been created (yes another one!) to help with this. When a user creates a new request instead of putting the usual code, they shall put

{{Request Title|title=Lorem Ipsum|done=false}}. Now when a request is completed, all you will have to do is change done to true

done=true

and the template will add the {{did}} template and also <!--werdnabot-archive--> to the title, so it will get archived.

As always, if you experience any issues with the new changes, or are just a bit confused, please don't hesitate to contact me or DTR on our talk pages.

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> Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 11:36, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Unblock 195.189.142.244

This blocked user (block log | autoblocks | unblock | contribs | deleted contribs) has asked to be unblocked, but an administrator has reviewed and declined this request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy). This unblock request continues to be visible. Do not replace this message with another unblock request or add another unblock request.

Request reason: "IP 195.189.142.244 was blocked indefinitely as an open proxy, but it is a dynamic IP that has now been assigned to me."

I have forwarded this request to Yamla. Is there another network you can use in the meantime? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 09:54, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Not really: I'll be on my mobile for the rest of the week, and it seems to be getting the same address all the time now. --Slashme 10:32, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, this is still an open proxy. This IP address is used by the Opera Mini browser.  :( --Yamla 14:51, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Could you please point me to the relevant page where this decision was taken? I doubt that my mobile phone is acting as a zombie or open proxy!

don't worry, I figured it out. --Slashme 18:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Response to your query

Hello Slashme, you asked the following on my talk page:

"Add reference to Ehlers and Blatt Petrology. That's all, not controversial, please don't revert.

What the heck was that for? It was so suspicious it made me check it out, and usually I only look at diffs without summaries and edits by anonymous editors.--Slashme 15:45, 2 October 2007 (UTC)" Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Drillerguy"

An anon user didn't like some of the referenced facts I added to clay and was reflexivly reverting all of my edits, even non-controversial ones. This included references which I had added. I threw in the towel until a later date (when I had more definitive references) and just re-added the reference materials. I added this comment to my edit in the hopes this person would leave it alone. In the meantime that user followed me to my talk page and went nutty. Drillerguy 14:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Ha ha, thanks for your reply, but what does "cucumber time" mean? Is that a SA thing? (sorry, I'm a little thick!)Drillerguy 15:01, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

(Response on Drillerguy's talk page)--Slashme 06:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Why 471?

Well, a while ago I was making a Hotmail account (worst thing is probably ever did :-), I'm on GMail now) and I typed in for my address rugby@hotmail.com. Ofcourse that was already taken, so it suggested other things, and one of them was rugby471@hotmail.com and it has stuck ever since. > Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 17:02, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Kilogram

David. Regarding your recent edits to the Kilogram article (differences here): as painful as it is to watch, I understand and accept your reasoning (I think). I’ll noodle on some of them for a few days. A very good job so far. I appreciate the thought you’ve put into what edits to make and your reasoned and pithy edit summary explanations you’re leaving for me. Are you an administrator? You’re so young! Greg L (my talk) 18:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Response on Talk:Kilogram to duplicate comment --Slashme 07:51, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:4-aminobenzoic-acid-skeletal.svg

Hi David, Ben has noted a tiny mistake in the above image over at Commons—the benzene ring isn't all it's supposed to be :) Should be a quick fix, though. Best, Fvasconcellos (t·c) 15:01, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Oops! Thanks. Fixed.

By the way, congratulations on your incredibly economical SVGs. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 15:02, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! A few tricks of my own, plus Mysid's incredible example. --Slashme 15:17, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

BKChem

I'm interested in the Structure drawing workgroup but I've so little time available!!!

I'll try to convert some PNG images strucure to SVG. It's useful to use SMILES strings in BKChem to accelerate drawings.

About Mysid's script I don't have runtime perl to run it. In this case I'll segnalate to you new structures that I upload for subscript correction.

Bye MaxViol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.3.159.197 (talk) 09:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

(reply on Max Viol's page) --Slashme 10:02, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

RasMol

I'm sorry, I am only a novice with any of the chemical imaging programs, including RasMol. If RasMol can do distributed charges, I'm not sure how. But I think it probably can't, since it's meant mainly for viewing crystal structures.--ragesoss 21:12, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia conduct

Slashme, I understood what you were trying to communicate with your rewriting of my response on Talk:Kilogram and separating them into “Heat” and “Light” sections as you did here (difference). Thank you (sorta). However, it wasn’t proper for you to rewrite what I wrote and sign my name to the “Heat” section and leave the “Light” section unsigned. Even though you may very well be the most level-headed editor involved in that issue, please don’t assume that you may take it upon yourself to decided how I may think and express my thoughts. I may eventually refer to that text in final arguments on the Wikiquette alert. You are perfectly at liberty to unambiguously express your thoughts in that forum and elsewhere on Wikipedia. I have no problem if you quote my response in its entirely and paraphrase it as long as it is clear as to which author wrote what content. Fair enough? Greg L (my talk) 18:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Response on Greg's talk page and on Talk:Kilogram --Slashme 19:27, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Mole Crickets

This is not original research, just and accidental discovery. I would appreciate it if you left this addition alone and let others decide for themselves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.255.151.114 (talk) 16:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Reply on user's talk page --Slashme 05:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing the structure

Thanks for the advice with wedged bonds (see THC).

-- Panoramix303 16:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Another thing.... I want to write an article on a specific molecule which does not have an entry yet but is referenced from several others. Unfortunately I am not a native english speaker. If possible I would appreciate your proof reading skills.

-- Panoramix303 17:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Reply on User_talk:Panoramix303 --Slashme 19:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-arachidonyl_glyceryl_ether

-- Panoramix303 18:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Where to move “Mass versus weight”?

Slashme, please see Talk:Kilogram: Location for “Mass versus weight”. A consensus has clearly been reached to move the topic out of Kilogram. I would like to move it to its own article. Sheffield Steel^talk_stalk has already indicated in his post that he wouldn’t mind that. Bfigura ^(talk) has also specifically indicated that he wouldn’t mind a separate article. If you agree, then we’ve got a consensus — although not necessarily 100% buy-in because of Enuja (talk). Your opinion please. Greg L (my talk) 18:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Reply on Talk:Kilogram--Slashme 06:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Freehand or Corel

Hi all,

My university offers its crest as a freehand or corel file for those who want high quality. Which will be easier to convert to svg on linux? --Slashme 19:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

If by Corel File, you mean WPG, then Corel file it is > Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 17:22, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Response on Wikipedia talk:Graphic Lab --Slashme 06:29, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Corelle

Hello. On June 1, 2007, I added a list of Corelle pattern names to the Corelle article since Corelleware patterns are collectibles. In September, an anonymous user augmented the list. On October 30th, surprisingly, you deleted the list with the Comment: "No sense in a meaningless list of model names." IMHO, while the list might be meaningless to you, it's not meaningless to millions of users and collectors. So I created a new page, List of Corelle patterns, and moved the list there. That's probably a better location for it anyway. Rosiestephenson (talk) 23:32, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

PDF table to wiki table

Hi. Thanks for converting the incarceration table to wiki format. How did you do it? I am referring to this.

I am hoping you found a way to do it without having to individually copy and paste each cell. Do you have a PDF writing tool? --Timeshifter (talk) 05:13, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Response on User talk:Timeshifter

Thank You

Thank you for pointing that out to me. Also, you showed me the "citation needed" symbol and all that when I was using a "fact" symbol for stuff that I thought needed citation.

Also thank you for explaining how to talk to you here by clicking on the "+" sign.... I was about to click on "Edit This Page."

Yup, I'm a Wiki-Noob.

Again, thanks for being Italic textSO kind!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Heyfunboy (talk • contribs) 17:37, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply on User talk:Heyfunboy --Slashme (talk) 07:14, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve#World Organization of the Scout Movement

I noticed no one is even touching this one-you've been great help, would you tell me am I doing something wrong this time? Chris (talk) 20:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply on User talk:Kintetsubuffalo--Slashme (talk) 09:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help! Can you upload Image:BSA Region Map.svg to Commons, like its request tag? Thank you! Chris (talk) 17:10, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

::Can you help upload the supposed image at Graphic_Lab/Images_to_improve#Savez_Izvi.C4.91a.C4.8Da_Crne_Gore? I cannot upload it and the guy who supposedly created it is totally unhelpful. I promise I will defend it from deletionists and all. Chris (talk) 05:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Never mind, got it. Chris (talk) 05:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Return

Memory of when you had to type that up by hand. Also, the current template doesn't seem to work well when attempting to link to headings as anchors. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 13:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't ANI work based on some template ({{Resolved}}) or something that's included immediately under the header? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 18:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

units of measurement of vaccume

What possessed you to add cm H2O as a pressure unit to an article on Chemical vapor deposition of diamond‎? If you feel really really strongly, I guess you can put the psi back in, but surely you were WP:POINT with that edit? --Slashme (talk) 05:58, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

One has to remember that NPOV is not only consesnsus between a swmall subset of the readers. One makes an article more readable by providing information that all the readers can digest. I've never met a practicing jeweler who used kPa for anything. RegardsTrilobitealive (talk) 14:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply on User talk:Trilobitealive

How many jewelers do you know that do CVD? Anyway, we can't have long lists of units, we have to standardize. If you want, you can put psi back into the article, but centimeters of water is not a sensible unit. The issue here is not NPOV, it's just general good style. --Slashme (talk) 14:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

If I recall correctly CM of water pressure is more commonly used in the medical and commercial diving fields, atmospheres in the aviation fields, PSI in automotive and jewelry fields, et cetera. Not to mention the question of ageism when one uses a single measurement type which has become more popular in the last 20 years. If you change this I'd appreciate you find a way of putting in all the alternatives. I think that putting a single type measurement in an article like this is poor style if you expect the readers to follow the gist of the work. Sorry I don't have more time to discuss but you get the idea. Regards Trilobitealive (talk) 14:37, 20 December 2007 (UTC) Edited to add the question you do realize this is not just a limited area of interest among a handful of chemists but has become a subject of general interest to an eclectic group of readers don't you?Trilobitealive (talk) 14:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

• Bringing ageism into the discussion makes me think you're trolling.

Nope. I see your reply to this as more a lack of sensitivity to such issues than ill intent and will ask you to revisit your thoughts in 30 years. ;) I stumbled across this article and the first thing which jumped out at me was the fact I had to look up kPa. Any Wikipedia article needs to have sufficiently transparent usage of alternate mensuration to make it readable to everyone.Trilobitealive (talk) 17:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

• The International System of Units is a bit older than 20 years. The fact that it has only recently been gaining popularity in the USA is unfortunate, but Wikipedia is not intended to be a US-centric publication.
• cm of water (note capitalization!) is not an appropriate unit for an article on a physics topic.

I'll concede this point.Trilobitealive (talk) 17:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

• Putting in "all the alternatives" is not concordant with the Wikipedia manual of style (see Wikipedia:Units#Units_of_measurement for more details).

Enough alternatives need to be put in to allow sufficient number of people to understand the article. How are you ever going to retain broad interest otherwise? RegardsTrilobitealive (talk) 17:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it is necessary to add other units than kPa in this context, but if you feel strongly enough to add psi, I won't fight you on that. --Slashme (talk) 14:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I decided it wouldn't be so bad to keep Torr as well as psi after all, so I just formatted the units somewhat. --Slashme (talk) 15:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

sucralose representation

i believe the sucralose2.png is the correct representation. the svg image is missing a -CH2- at the top of the glucose ring.

• 
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compare with sucrose:

• 

what do you think?

--Namenotek (talk) 20:21, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply on (User talk:Namenotek) --Slashme (talk) 13:57, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

autoarchiving?

Isn't the Graphics Lab page supposed to automatically archive checked images? Or must this be done manually? How often is it supposed to take place? Chris (クリス) (talk) 04:10, 26 December 2007 (UTC) Reply on User talk:Kintetsubuffalo --Slashme (talk) 14:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Tom Lehrer citation

Thanks for the kind words of welcome. I'm not sure how the Tosca example could be referenced; I did a brief Google search, but (not surprisingly) Lehrer's course notes for the MIT game theory course are not on-line, and even in the unlikely event I saved my notes, that wouldn't be accessible to others. BTW, I omitted another vivid example, which is now so dated as to be unintelligible to most people. He spoke of a person who would not make any decisions without discussing it with his guru in California; the exercise was, given the different phone rates, to compute at what probability of his being in it would make sense to phone person-to-person as opposed to station-to-station. Thanks for leaving the other example in.R2SBD (talk) 17:21, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply on User talk:R2SBD.

Inkscape mouse

Here's a nifty mouse SVG: I want to use it in a scientific breeding scheme but will need to colour the mouse for the purpose of clarity. I made the mouse originally in GIMP, a week or so before I downloaded Inkscape. I did try re-creating it in Inkscape but couldn't get it to look quite as cute so I traced it. The problem is that the lines are two-sided in terms of the paths, so changing the fill changes the outline of the mouse - the center colour doesn't change (this is far too difficult for me to explain; if you open the image and try to change the mouse fill colour, you'll get what I mean!). Can anything be done about that? I have this insatiable urge to just use the bucket fill button but it doesn't exist in Inkscape! --Seans Potato Business 02:22, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I had already recreated it in Inkscape from scratch (I was just being lazy!) but I still learned from your explanation so thanks! Here's what I'm working on at the moment. --Seans Potato Business 14:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Monkey butter

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Thanks for the notice. I have removed the prod template and proposed other solutions on the discussion page. --Slashme (talk) 08:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		Thanks for helping to fix the DST image on the Graphics Lab. Cheers! miranda 04:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:MikeWilks.jpg

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commons:Image:Kissingsnails.jpg

Hi, looks like image Kissingsnails.jpg is probably moved from en to commons. En-wiki image was uploaded by you, is that commons image also yours? Please add correct info to image, and maybe notice uploader to be more carefully next time. --Tomia (talk) 17:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

John X Merriman

Hi, would you mind working on an Afrikaans language page for John X. Merriman? --Ted-m (talk) 03:47, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Abbe number diagram

Hi David, I hope you had a good start into the year 2008! Could you please have a look in the graphics lab at the Abbe number diagram because I left some notes there? Thank you... --Afluegel (talk) 19:58, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Done --Slashme (talk) 10:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)